# Machine (disambiguation)

A machine is a device that uses energy to perform some activity or task.
Machine, Machines, Machinery, The Machine, or The Machines may also refer to:

## Term of art

More specific applications of the general term
* Machine (mechanical) device designed to apply forces and control movement
* Machine (patent), one of the four statutory categories of patent-eligible subject matter under United States patent law

## Computing

* a.k.a. computer
** Abstract machine, a theoretical model of a computer hardware or software system used in automata theory
*** Turing machine, an abstract model of a computer
** virtual machine, a computing machine implemented in software rather than directly in hardware
** Machine-generated data
* Machines (video game), a 1999 real-time strategy game for Microsoft Windows
* The Machine (computer architecture), a computer architecture project announced in 2014 by Hewlett Packard

## Personal nickname

The following are nicknamed "The Machine":
* Bert Kreischer (born 1973), American stand-up comedian, actor, and reality television host
* Albert Pujols (born 1980), Dominican-American baseball player
* Vimael Machín (born 1993), Puerto Rican baseball player
* Sasha Vujačić (born 1984), Slovenian basketball player
* James Wade (born 1983), English darts player

## Music

* Machine (band) a late-1970s American funk disco group
* Machine (producer), American record producer
* The Machine (band), a US Pink Floyd tribute band formed in 1988
* Machinery Records, a German record label founded in 1989
* In Florence and the Machine, the band backing lead singer Florence Welch
* Machine (Higdon), a 2003 orchestral composition by Jennifer Higdon

### Albums

* Machine (Artension album), a 2000 album by neo-classical progressive metal band Artension
* Machine (Crack the Sky album), a 2010 album by Crack the Sky
* Machine (Static-X album), a 2001 album by Static-X
* Machine (EP), a 2002 EP by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and also the title of a single from that EP
* Machines (EP), a 1966 EP by Manfred Mann
* Machine, a 1994 album by Paul Dean

### Songs

* "Machines" (or 'Back to Humans'), a 1984 song by Queen
* "Machines" (Biffy Clyro song), 2007
* Machines (Red Flag song), 1992
* "Machine" (Imagine Dragons song), 2018
* "Machine" (Theatre of Tragedy song), 2001
* "The Machine" a song from deathcore band In the Midst of Lions
* "The Machine", a 2006 song by Angels & Airwaves from the album We Don't Need to Whisper
* "The Machine", a 2007 song by Reverend and the Makers from the album The State of Things
* "The Machines", a marching band work composed by Gary P. Gilroy
* "Machines", a song by The Jealous Girlfriends from the eponymous album
* "Machine", a 2009 song by Regina Spektor from the album Far
* "Machine", a 1998 song by Vixen from the album Tangerine
* "Machine", a 2018 song by Anne-Marie from the album Speak Your Mind

## Sports

* Chicago Machine (MLL), a major league lacrosse team based in Bridgeport, Illinois
* Montreal Machine, an American Football team based in Canada from 1991 to 1992
* The Machines (professional wrestling), a tag team in the 1980s
* The Machine (Richard), a character in the 2013 Irish film The Stag (also called The Bachelor Weekend)
* La Máquina (Spanish for "the Machine"), nickname of the River Plate association football team of the early 1940s

## Fiction

* Machine (novel), a 1930 Japanese novel by Riichi Yokomitsu
* Machine (2006 film), an American film
* Machine (2017 film), a Bollywood film
* The Machine (2013 film), a British science fiction film
* The Machine (2023 film), an American action comedy film
* Machines (Nier: Automata), a fictional robotic race in the video game Nier: Automata
* The Machine, a surveillance computer in the 2011–2016 American TV series Person of Interest
* The Machine, the interstellar-travel device in Contact a 1985 novel by Carl Sagan
* Machine, a character in the 1999 film 8mm
* Alexis Machine / George Stark, a character in the 1989 novel The Dark Half by Stephen King
* Machine, a 2020 novel by Elizabeth Bear

## Other uses

* Mount Machine, mountain in Japan
* Political machine, a vote-delivering and political power-broking system
* AMC Machine, 1970 and 1971 muscle cars built by the American Motors Corporation (AMC)
* The Machine (social group), a University of Alabama coalition of fraternities and sororities
* The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot, a 1991 pinball machine made by Williams